Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-08-26
TERRIBLE SUFFERINGS.
THE WHOLE BODY THE SEAT OF
INTENSE PAIN.

in Quantity-A Case that Puzzled the
Learned Doctors of Gotham The Remedy
Discovered by the Explosion of Lamp
| The Body Must Be Subjected 20 the Pain
of Burning 10 Relieve the Torture from
Some Unknown Cause.
1t is rare thing m medicine when
set of symptoms appear which can not
be explained. Through the ignorance
Of physicians at times cases will be
diagnosed wrong, and symptoms will
be misinterpreted and taken to mean
something other than the true disease,
but when physicians who are erudite
and know about all that there is TO be
known in defining symptoms and Civ
ng the proper treatment fan, to give
name to the disease from which an in
1vidual is suffering, then the disease
may be considered more than passing
strange and worthy to take place
among the unexpla ned freaks of
nature. There is such case at st.
Elizabeth Hospital, New York, says
special to The Cincinnati Enquirer.
The patient is woman named Jane
Horibeck. She is of slight build, has
black hair and eyes, an unusually
heavy growth of hair upon the face
especially on the upper lip and has
big head and large bones covered with
small muscles. Her ailment began
some time ago, its commencement be.
ing dated as near as it can be fixed to
an injury to her spine. While leaning
out of window she lost her balance
and fell about twenty feet to the pave
ment On her way dawn she struck a
heavy wire clothes.lne. The wire cut
into the small of her back. and threw
her SO she landed on her knees. She
was unconscious of the shock for sew
eral hours. and the only injury besides
the severe laceration in the spine was
a dislocated shoulder. The dislocation
was reduced by the woman's family
physician, and it was expected that she
would be all right in a few days.
She was kept in bed all the time, and
about a week after she was hurt she
complained of severe pain in the
spine in the lower part over space
that seemed TO her to be round and
about the size Of a silver dollar.
IT WAS A HOT, BURING PAIN,
And the sensation as described by her
was as if there was something eating
through the flesh like an acid Irrita-
ton by rubbing and several ointments
and plasters were put upon the spine
where the pain was located, but it re-
NAMED there all the time without the
slightest abatement In fact, the ex-
tent of the pain surface increased,
seeming to follow in the line of cir
Gle. The flesh where the pain was did
not show the slightest change in color,
being perfectly natural and without
any apparent increase or diminution in
the temperature. The pain seemed to
start from common center and to
move around the circle from left to
right.
At the end of three months the emit re
back had been brought within the cir
conference Of pain, and the woman 5
suffer ngs were terrible, but this was
as nothing as to what she had yet to un-
dergo.
Whatever the cause of the pain, it
gradually got a better and stronger
hold on the nerves and muscles of the
/ tA ha I.
domcn. When the entire trunk had be-
come subject to its influence, the wo-
man had 10 be kept under the soothing
power Of opiates. and when the effect
OF the med cine would pass away she
would be driven into delirious state
by the horrible sensation. The pain
started in the back and passed around
the body. and the woman felt as if she
wac being consumed by fire.
THE HEART BECAME AFFECTED.
II beat feebly, and would pail tate in a
d stress n 2 manner at the least exertion
Air going into the lungs appeared to be
red bot and the respirato on was alter
nately above and below the normal.
Above the waist the flesh was covered
with cold sweat, while the legs were
dry and hot, and frequently of death
~ pale color. There was no such
thing as digestion. Whatever food was
given. no matter how simple il might
be, gave rise to great distress. and was
passed from the body but little chang
ed n character.
Before the patient was taken to
tho hospital she had been seen and ex-
amined by number of physicians, who
could not make any sure diagnosis of
the case. About all the drugs that are
known to act upon the nerves we're
given to the poor woman. She steadily
grew worse. The pain area kept on
increasing until the legs, arms and
head were racked with excrucating
pain. and when it finally extended TO